Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri (1737–1814)

French proponent of natural
theology whose Harmonies de la nature, published posthumously
in 1815, was widely read in both France and England. In it, Bernadin de
Saint-Pierre argued for a teleologically uncompromising form of pluralism:
"Nature has made nothing in vain, and what would be the use of desert globes?"
He even claimed that comets are inhabited and that celestial objects have
souls.